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posted by martyb on Wednesday March 27 2019, @12:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the what's-the-catch? dept.

Apple announces Apple Card credit card

At Apple's "show time" services event today, it announced a new Apple Card credit card, promising to improve things about the credit card experience with simpler applications, no fees, lower interest rates, and better rewards.

To get an Apple Card, users will be able to sign up on their iPhone in the Apple Wallet app and get a digital card that they can use anywhere Apple Pay is accepted "within minutes." Customers will also be able to track purchases, check balances, and see when their bill is due right from the app. There will be a physical titanium card, too, but there's no credit card number, CVV, expiration date, or signature. All of that authorization information is stored directly in the Apple Wallet app.

Apple also says that it'll use machine learning and Apple Maps to label stores that you use in the app, and use that data to track purchases across categories like "food and drink" or "shopping." [...] Like many of Apple's products, privacy is a big push here. "Apple doesn't know what you bought, where you bought it, and how much you paid for it," said Jennifer Bailey, VP of Apple Pay. All of the spending tracking and other information is stored directly on the device, not Apple's servers. The company also promises that "Goldman Sachs will never sell your data to third parties for marketing and advertising."

Other companies have offered 3-4% cash back for certain purchases.

Also at Ars Technica.

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Apple's move into banking raises the bar for fintech, traditional credit cards


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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 27 2019, @02:12PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 27 2019, @02:12PM (#820644) Journal

    Dear Apple,

    I don't have an iPhone. Yet I have an endless stream of Rewards type high limit credit card offers arriving almost daily in the mail.

    I wish I could make them stop. It would save me, and my poor scissors from being too dull.

    Of course good old American cash is better.

    It doesn't pay you back some percentage. Or free airline frights. Or Disney Dollars. Or Amazon Rewards.

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  • (Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Wednesday March 27 2019, @03:48PM (1 child)

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Wednesday March 27 2019, @03:48PM (#820707)

    It doesn't pay you back some percentage. Or free airline frights. Or Disney Dollars. Or Amazon Rewards.

    It also does not gouge sellers for processing fees, causing prices to go up, which is where those "cash back as long as you spend it how we want you to get used to spending it" bonuses comes from.

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 27 2019, @04:27PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 27 2019, @04:27PM (#820738) Journal

      Yep. I understand how that works. I even explained it in another post.

      The problem is if I don't take advantage of it, then I'm subsidizing the people who do.

      I WILL have to pay the retailer's higher prices inflated by CC processing fees. No matter what. So I might as well get the benefits of using the system.

      As for politics: We should get rid of corruption. Or alternately create more opportunity to participate in it.

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